Shipmaker Problem

[Jim Raynor]

Now I am fairly new to BSF, and have therefore combed the forum as much as I can before posting this but this appears to be an unanswered/encountered problem. I had installed the latest version of this on two computers (both PC), I had first played this on my weaker XP computer, and besides the slowdown in large fights had no problems, I even created a few nice ships using the ship maker. However when I tried to play this on my more powerful Vista computers, I encountered a serious problem on the shipmaker thatmakes it it unusable. It starts up fine, the display is the same and the controls all work, and I can spawn all the segments/weapons. However when I move the mouse to try to place those pieces they go flying off the top left of my screen, and any pieces I place after that wind up in the same place (before I even move mouse). I checked the edit screen for the segments and it came up with insane coordinates well out of range of the entire shipmaker build-area (So I can't reach them/see them again).

(Shortened) Any piece I attempt to move in shipmaker relocates somewhere far off the top left of the screen where I can't even reach it. Each piece spawned afterwards automatically does the same (including the core).

Any help is appreciated, thanks.

[DoubleThink]

Props for checking before you ask.


Hm... I can't help much, but I have had the same problem, to a lesser degree. Props will sometimes spawn way off the top of the screen, I usually undo and respawn them. But, if it's doing this consistently, I have no clue. My layman's fix would be to build your ships on XP, then bring them over to your Vista compy to play with them. Or, if you're [img]really[/img] patient, you could shift-arrow them all the way back down. That's a possibility, but is by no means realistic.

[th15]

Try not to move the window or make it fullscreen, that can cause problems.

[Jim Raynor]

Well I haven't been moving the window, though I did enlarge it at one point... Part of problem I guess may be that I use a large HD TV for a monitor, I can't run BSF in full screen because of that, however I don't see how that would affect positioning in Shipmaker, but its all I can think of.

One other thing, I can tell when I'm moving really fast and the cursor starts to appear, that its locking on one position about 1/2 the way to top left corner of the screen, movement in any direction results in it pulling back to that spot... This is only when I am moving a part though, otherwise the cursor moves normally.

[Chiiro]

IIRC I had this problem too.
Do you boot up the sandbox from the shipmaker?
Because that was giving me lots of problems a while back.

[th15]

It does affect the program because it uses screen mouse screen positions (the position of the mouse on the monitor itself) to control the position of the mouse.

[Empty]

I've encountered this on my schools computers [I did a gamemakre course so ]

When a GM game is compiled up as a fullscreen game on one resolution of a computer, take the .exe to another computer and the mouse positions get crazy.

Rule of the thumb: Play it in windowed.

[Jim Raynor]

Edited: I was wrong

Okay, its worse than what I thought (That it was placing pieces on control panel). Whenever I move my mouse it recognizes that movement as going upwards and leftwards really really fast. The more I move the mouse in any direction, the more it goes in that direction. (By really fast I mean by tapping the mouse lightly it went up and left 500 units). I still have less than no idea how to fix this, I am only aware that the cursor appears to lock in on a spot whenever I start to move a piece and always comes back to that spot no matter what direction I go until I drop the piece. I really hope someone can figure this out...

[Elvin]

Do you have a Logitech mouse? if so, get the SetPoint software, and set up manual mouse DPI for the shipmaker.exe file.